Graham Brightwell
{{Short description|British mathematician}}
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|workplaces = London School of Economics
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|doctoral_advisor = Béla Bollobás
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Graham Brightwell is a British mathematician working in the field of discrete mathematics.{{ACM Portal}}{{cite web|url=http://www2.lse.ac.uk/researchAndExpertise/Experts/g.r.brightwell@lse.ac.uk|title=University of London – LSE page|publisher=London School of Economics|accessdate=November 12, 2011|archive-date=August 7, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130807115946/http://www.lse.ac.uk/researchAndExpertise/Experts/g.r.brightwell@lse.ac.uk|url-status=dead}}
A professor at the London School of Economics, he has published nearly 100 papers in pure mathematics, including over a dozen with Béla Bollobás. His research interests include random combinatorial structures; partially ordered sets; algorithms; random graphs; discrete mathematics and graph theory.{{DBLP}}{{cite web|url=http://www.springerlink.com/content/?Author=Graham+Brightwell|title=recent Springer Publications|publisher=Springer Science+Business Media |accessdate=November 12, 2011}}{{dead link|date=February 2020|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} (Bollobás supervised his PhD on "Linear Extensions of Partially Ordered Sets" at Cambridge, awarded 1988.{{MathGenealogy}})
Othello
Brightwell started playing Othello in 1985, after finding himself sharing an apartment with fellow mathematician and Othello player Imre Leader.{{citation|url=https://www.angelfire.com/il/raanani/inGrBr.html|title=Interview with Graham Brightwell|first=Leonid|last=Shifman|access-date=2013-10-29|date=c. 2000}}. He has finished three times as runner-up in the World Othello Championship and is a 5-time British Champion, and has served as chairman of the British Othello Federation and as editor of the British Othello Newsletter.{{cite web|url=http://www.worldothellofederation.com/historic.asp|title=World Othello Championships|publisher=World Othello Federation|accessdate=November 12, 2011|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20111005065247/http://www.worldothellofederation.com/historic.asp|archivedate=October 5, 2011|df=mdy-all}}{{cite web|url=http://www.britishothello.org.uk/nationalchampionshipsroh.html|title=British Othello Federation|publisher=British Othello Federation|accessdate=November 12, 2011|archive-date=April 25, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120425160929/http://www.britishothello.org.uk/nationalchampionshipsroh.html|url-status=dead}}
He created the Brightwell Quotient, often used in Othello tournaments, to resolve ties.{{cn|date=March 2025}}
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Category:Alumni of the University of Cambridge
Category:20th-century British mathematicians
Category:21st-century British mathematicians